IRVINE, Calif.—Toshiba Corp. said it has introduced a family of chips it calls Silicon Germanium Heterojunction Bipolar Transistor for cellular phones and other wireless devices with wideband CDMA and wireless local area network functionality."Today's high-end portable and wireless communications devices are driving the need...
IRVINE, Calif.—Toshiba America Electronic Components said it has developed a family of 64 megabit Pseudo Static Random Access Memories for higher-density memory in the next generation of wireless devices.The company said its PSRAM devices support access times of 80 or 85 nanoseconds and are...
TOKYO—Toshiba Corp. is launching its wireless notebooks Portege 4000 and Tecra 9000 models , which will offer 802.11b and Bluetooth technologies.Toshiba hopes to differentiate itself from competitors like Dell and IBM with these products.
SEOUL, South Korea—Chip maker Toshiba Corp. wants to sell its dynamic random access memory chips to Samsung Electronics, a reflection of the Korean company's struggles.The company is also speculated to have offered to sell its chips to Infineon Technologies, NEC Corp. and Elpida.
As a counterfoil to a slackening economy, chip makers are striking up alliances, shrinking their product sizes and paring down prices to differentiate themselves in the face of layoffs, reduced spending and plant shutdowns.Some of the alliances are between NEC Corp. and Taiwanese Semiconductor...
TOKYO-Barely two weeks after it recalled 560,000 Sony mobile phones, Japanese carrier KDDI Corp. announced another recall of 52,100 cell phones because of software glitches. The phones were made by Casio Computer Co. Ltd., Kyocera Corp., Sanyo Electric Co. Ltd., Toshiba Corp. and Sony....
NEW YORK-Kyocera Corp., Motorola Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. showcased new wireless phones at the TechXNY PC Expo 2001 last week that are more than conversation pieces.PC-EPhoneIn early July, San Diego-based distributor PC-EPhone Inc. will begin marketing through carriers, electronics retailers and online...
802.11b, otherwise known as WiFi, is growing into one of the most buoyant fountains of money in the wireless industry, challenging big and small vendors to seek differentiating models in a tightening economic landscape.According to industry sources, the technology, which is thriving on the...
NEW YORK-Investors looking for successful Bluetooth market plays will have to wait till late this year, but the outlook for the technology will grow brighter during the next several years, said Johan Strandberg, senior wireless equipment analyst for Stockholm-based Deutsche Bank-Scandinavia."There are significant Bluetooth...
The alliance between Sony Corp. of Japan and L.M. Ericsson of Sweden is giving the two companies hope they have a chance to trump Nokia Corp. as the supreme player in the mobile- phone market. But similar alliances in the past have been failures.After...
Sony of Japan is holding talks with Sweden's L.M. Ericsson on merging their handset divisions, hinting at what some analysts perceive as a possible trend in the industry.Both companies recoiled from revealing details on the talks, a deal from which would promise to leverage...
CANADACell-Loc Inc. completed and made available its Cellocate Beacon I, a wireless device that enables several location services via the company's existing networks in Calgary, Alberta and Austin, Texas. According to test data, the new device is consistent with enhanced 911 Phase II guidelines...
HANNOVER, Germany-Toshiba Europe GmbH, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Toshiba Corp., launched its Toshiba Mobile Office solution, a wireless network Internet solution for mobile professionals and small or home office customers.The Toshiba Mobile Office is a broadband-backed wireless network for access in public...
NEW YORK-The Wireless Multimedia Forum, which recently celebrated its first birthday, is on schedule in building a framework for content that must be written just once for delivery to any device over any network.Earlier this year, the WMF released Version 1.0 of its Recommended...
NEW YORK - Audiovox Communications Corp., Hauppauge, N.Y., has tapped into the computer expertise of its 5 percent owner, Toshiba Corp., to develop a combination cell phone and personal digital assistant that will go on sale late this year.Verizon Wireless and Sprint PCS have...
Streaming content onto wireless devices seems like a perfect match of technology. Without the hard drive space required to download and save large files, streaming content to wireless devices is a good way for wireless customers to experience large data files.PacketVideo Corp. has jumped...
While the market for consumers who might want to watch streaming video or listen to streaming audio on their wireless devices is debatable, chip manufacturers are going ahead with plans to integrate streaming content technology into chips in case that demand materializes.Toshiba Corp. unveiled...
WASHINGTON-A new book describes top cellular lobbyist Thomas Wheeler as obsessed with controlling public relations for industry-funded mobile phone-cancer research conducted in the 1990s and claims he attempted extraordinary measures to downplay suspected health risks.In "Cell Phones: Invisible Hazards in the Wireless Age," Dr. George...
While the jury is still out on whether consumers will want to watch streaming video on the small screens of their wireless devices, Toshiba America Electronic Components Inc., along with its parent company Toshiba Corp., launched a silicon MPEG-4 decoder enabling designers to create...
While the latest wireless handsets feature such technological advancements as wireless Internet access, short message service and ever-decreasing size, the power sources needed to supply those functions have been left out of the limelight. Battery manufacturers are quick to point out that without the...
LAS VEGAS-Qualcomm Inc., the Computer Systems Group of Toshiba America Information Systems Inc. and Ericsson Microelectronics demonstrated an over-the-air wireless Web surfing application of a Bluetooth-equipped laptop communicating wirelessly with a CDMA handset via a Bluetooth dial-up network at the Comdex show in Las...
TOKYO-The mobile music distribution business is going to take off in Japan, according to industry representatives. Some carriers have already revealed their services, while others are promoting field tests in cooperation with vendors.NTT DoCoMo at the beginning of 2000 established a joint venture with...
NEW YORK-Motorola Inc. has begun carrier trials of its first Bluetooth-capable wireless phone, the Timeport 270, and expects to begin shipping the CDMA handsets by year-end.Depending on "carrier testing regimens," the manufacturer expects to ramp up to full production of the tri-mode PCS, analog...
NEW YORK-Endwave Corp., a Sunnyvale, Calif., provider of radio-frequency subsystems, went public Oct. 16 on Nasdaq with an offering of 6 million shares of stock, priced at $14, the midpoint of its expected $13-$15 range.Customers of Endwave are systems integrators that provide broadband wireless...
